UNITED KINGDOM
9 News (Australia)
The head of a Catholic order of nuns in the UK has admitted to an inquiry that proper follow-up on the care of child migrants the order sent to Australia could have protected them from sexual abuse.
Sister Anna Maria Doolan, the UK Superior for the Sisters of Nazareth, on Thursday gave evidence to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse sitting in London.
The inquiry is examining the sexual abuse of children sent to church or charity-run farm schools in Australia up to the 1970s.
It has heard that children were regularly beaten and humiliated, poorly fed and clothed and used as virtual slave labour on farms, with the Christian Brothers in Western Australia among the worst offenders.
That Catholic order actively sought boys from the Sisters of Nazareth in the UK.
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